There appears to be a bug in orgtbl-self-insert-command, which uses last-input-event instead of last-command-event. self-insert-command itself uses the latter variable. Reproduction steps: 1. Enable evil-mode and evil-escape-mode 2. Set `evil-escape-key-sequence' to "fd" (the default) 3. In an empty text-mode buffer with orgtbl-mode enabled: a. Press `f RET' slowly; this inserts f and then a newline b. Press `f RET` quickly; this inserts just two newlines After step 3b, view-lossage contains: f ;; orgtbl-self-insert-command ;; orgtbl-hijacker-command-100 With the patch, the above steps correctly insert f and then a newline.